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The Downy commercial featuring a singing poster of The Backstreet Boys - and a the N'Synch correction at the end. Saw this while watching an On Demand show so I rewound several times I loved it so much

And Daryl fangirls wanted so bad for them to become a couple. She was a teenager for Pete's sake! Same with them wanting to hook up Daryl and Connie. Just like Carol - why can't men and women be friends who truly love each other without having to shove a romance down our throats? Look how it ended with Leah! The entire Negan storyline from end of S6 to end of S8 was hard to watch and anxiety inducing. Seeing these people - Rick especially -on their knees and bowing under the thumb of the Saviors was infuriating. Most annoying: - Laurie. know she thought her husband was dead, but she still. When Carl first saw Rick and ran to him and she appeared to be wanting to hold him back from going to his father was when I first placed the annoying tag on her - Andrea. For some reason, she came across as a wannabe - trying too hard to be bad ass. - Beth. For my reasons above - Jessie (Pete's wife from Alexandria) and her stupid kid - Glen. Unpopular opinion, but I thought he came across as a big kid and never bought him and Maggie as some supercouple - Jada. And the entire Junkyard gang's idiotic language/vernacular - Leah. Another chick trying to act tough and losing the battle. - Alpha. Or maybe it was just her sing-songy accent Favorite: - Carol. Carol. Did I say Carol? - Judith. When children and teens can be the demise of some shows, this little girl knocked it out of the park. She was a tough kid rather than a kid who was trying too hard to be tough (looking at you, World Beyond sisters!) - Rick. Even when he made mistakes or very unpopular decision (keeping Negan alive), he never lost the air of leadership he had around him - Father Gabriel. What a turnaround from the coward he was when they found him in the church to "they call me Gabriel" don't mess with me character - Deanna. I really liked this little powerhouse and her vision for Alexandria. When she gave the order to Rick to kill Pete.....oooooooh! Graduated from annoying to tolerable: - Negan. Once JDM stopped with the body contorting and sarcastic euphenisms , then got soaked in humility in that jail did he become bearable - Princess. What? A character wearing a pink, fuzzy jacket and goggles? Seriously? She was a bit much when we first met her, but she pulled it back a bit. And I like her hooking up with Mercer Just Didn't Care About - Magna & Yumiko - Dale - Rosita Best Fist-Pumping Moment - Tie between Carol saving the day in No Sanctuary and Shiva saving Carl's behind in The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life (to which the scene at the end where Rick and Maggie are addressing everyone after the shootout with the Saviors reminded me of the finale's scene with Mercer and Ezekiel addressing everyone at The Commonwealth) Scene I Can't Bring Myself To Watch Again - Shiva getting taken down by walkers Cringe Scene - Alpha in her birthday suit and walker mask getting it on with Negan Gasp Scene - The walker heads on pikes - and Carol realizing one was Henry's I'm sure there's more over the years, but this is all my brain can vomit out right now

I stopped watching at Ep 3:4 when all the raunch talk started - especially Phil's euphenisms for oral sex. I've been reading the comments here which just solidified my choice to stop watching Leslie character was a hoot, but the draw of the show was the cat cafe. To me, that was the nucleus to which everything else was built upon. I even enjoyed the invisi-Bridgeeet in the first season. Was an interesting quirk. Randy is bossy, Shelia is a toxic mother, Max is a child, Carter has no appeal and Kat is in serious need of a spine. I don't see this show being renewed

It did. It was awful. From making a mockery of the nativity, to the mother coming out of nowhere singing 'Silent Night' to the baby's mom suddenly showing up going "my baby!" to them all hooking up at the end - predictable and ridiculous And I agree about glossing over the mother leaving the baby at the firehouse because she 'needed a few days to figure things out'. Sorry - that does not fly with me. What if they had called child services right away - and rightly so? And the brother's mother condoning her behavior that she had to do what she felt she needed to do and not to feel bad about it. What a bunch of BS! She did not deserve to get that child back. The movie was cute in certain areas, but did not live up to the hype.

Was watching The Roots yesterday and was aghast at how often John-Boy (and some of the other children) go barefoot outside - especially the scene where JB is dipping lumber in a metal trash can filled with tar. Even if it's not hot tar, still - yikes!

I hope you realize that my comment was directed at how the individuals portrayed and come across in the commercial and not personally to anyone here - whether in their 20s or 40s I understand these services are a boon to elderly, bed-ridden, shut ins or when one is just too overwhelmed and needs a bit of help. But they can easily become the norm. Today, people can run their entire lives from their cell phone while never having to leave their couch watching Netflix. Tech and conveniences meant to be another ends to a means are slowly becoming a way to enable the abled. Again, this is my opinion

Yes - this! How about just putting your baby in a jumper, swing or baby seat while you're cooking? Those are quite fun from the iRobot headquarters POV, but the one with the lady having her Alexa, whatever to tell her iRobot to vacuum under the DR table irks me. The level of enable-ment (I made that word up) these products create is astounding. Go vacuum your own carpet, lady Same with the Daily Harvest commercials. "Emily hasn't bought groceries in weeks. So...how is she creating this masterpiece?" Said 'masterpiece' is a smoothie made from opening her freezer and pulling out a carton of frozen fruit from DH. You have GOT to be kidding me? I think some Michelin chefs may want to debate you on what constitutes a culinary masterpiece? There's another one with some whiny, soy-latte millenial saying that it's too hard or takes too much time to "chop my own vegetables". I truly perish the thought of these spoilt little brats having to fend for themselves in the Zombie Apocalypse without their soy, triple foam, no sugar caramel latte, Door Dash and cartons of frozen fruits and vegetables that they don't have time in their SUPER busy lives to go purchase or - Lord forbid - grow in a garden. I actually had a conversation about food shortages with a 20-something who said "well, if the stores run out of food, then I'll just order online" I didn't have the strength to ask her where she thought the online food delivery companies got their food from - the Magical Grocery Store Tree?

While she looks narrow and trim on the bottom, and most likely is being helped with a bump & roll smoothing body shaper, her upper body looks proportionally bigger. I don’t buy any of these fast weight loss gimmicks. Most ‘after’ photos are all clever angles, twisted pony leg, hand on hip and arm thrust back poses and Spanx to make them look thinner.

Looking forward to this as well - and I usually just skip over HM Nov & Dec until the Christmas movie fest is over with. Also saw previews for Inventing The Christmas Prince with Tamera Mowry. That looks like it may be adorable

Absolutely agree - and this is what I plan to do also. I personally don't make my choice to watch/not watch a movie based on diversity/inclusion. If I like a particular actor/actress, I'll watch them. If I've found them annoying in past roles (yes, CBB and HB - looking at both of you, Rachel Boston, Lacey Chabert, sometimes Autumn Reeser) I just don't even bother. Frankly, I much prefer new blood/non HM-franchise faces or else I could be really missing out on a potentially good movie due to an actress I find insufferable From your lips to the writer's ears! You can have the most diverse cast on the planet, but if it's just another cookie cutter, formulaic, plot, I will not watch. You can only have so many 'big city, single executive woman' having to suddenly drop everything to go back to quaint home town to save something from being extinct, going under, selling off in a foreclosure auction, etc. You'd think long time quaint home-towners can't fix these things themselves because, you know, having lived in quaint home town for so long. But it's all to get big city executive woman and small town, single, hunky ex-boyfriend back together so they can magically fix everything with his long time home-town-ness and her big city executive-ness that she'll eventually give up because home-town-ness trumps executive-ness. It's all the same - just change the season, holiday, big city executive profession (are they all writers, fashion designers, advertising agents?) and quaint home town problem du jour and - BOOM - you've got a HM movie hot off the contrived conveyor belt. Wake me when it's January and, hopefully, the dang Christmas movie train is over. I'll settle for watching some oldies On Demand and hoping for some new mystery movies

Actually, the 1990-1991 Giants went 10-0 before the Eagles handed them their first loss that year. They then lost to the 49ers (whom they'd eventually beat in the championship game) in that hard fought defensive MNF game the following week and their 3rd loss to the Bills (whom they beat in the SB) where Simms went down with a broken foot. Enter Hostetler and "you can't win the Superbowl with a backup quarterback" bellyaching. 49ers, Eagles, Cowboys have always been sticks in the Giants' craw over the decades

Giants won. Cowboys and Eagles lost. '72 Dolphins can pop that champagne cork. Life is good 😃

I tried looking up the title on IMDB but can't find it. Do we know the lead actress/actor? Can possibly look up by their names

She's become a lot more open minded since scolding Willie for peeking into Sylvia's window!

You see, this is what I don't understand. Sounds like a double standard here. CCB can voice her views on her faith and as to why she won't continue to work with a certain network because certain portrayals go against her beliefs and she gets slammed. HB takes to Twitter with profanity and sarcasm and she gets applauded. Intolerance to someone elses' beliefs is not, Ms. Burton, because it doesn't line up with the mainstream social agenda. I'm a born again Christian who also has beliefs about certain behaviors. I'd love to watch Yellowstone, but I just can't deal with the 'F' word every 5 minutes. There are shows we watch that contain portrayals that, as a Christian, I don't personally agree with (which is my religious constitutional right as with any other religion's right), but I shouldn't have to get called out for being a racist, bigot, Jesus freak - whatever - because what I believe in doesn't line up with theirs. THAT is intolerance. CCB has the right to do what's right for her. The right to her beliefs should be respected, even if you don't agree. Just as HBs right to her opinion should be respected, even if you don't agree. To me personally, Hallmark's attempt to be inclusive just seems like forced pandering - and that puts me off even more. And I've seen other shows attempting to do it as well which come across as them waving their woke, virtue signaling flag saying, "hey....look at us....we're on board here. Hey....over here.! You can boycott the network, the actors/actresses or just don't watch a particular show or movie if you feel something might be in it that doesn't line up with your beliefs - which is your right, regardless of what hollywood B/C list actor or actress spouts off about you on social media (which is their right too). I think you summed it up perfectly!

Although the gift at the end was beautiful, that wasn't enough for me. I kept thinking that if these actors were placed in the same movie with the word 'Italian' replaced with 'Hispanic' there's be outrage - and rightly so. Heck, even Cher was more believable in 'Moonstruck' (but only because they had the incredible Vincent Gardenia, Danny Aiello and a bunch of old timers in the background that even made me forget Nick Cage!) Plus the lead actress only made me think of Cassie's horrible cousin on Good Witch. As I probably thought, the Italian heritage was from the mother's side and not the father's so referring to Beau Bridges as 'nonno' was just a no-no. Ahhhh, honey soaked struffoli. My guess is that the writers went with a popular Italian pastry rather than do some research. And was definitely less time consuming had they done the 'feast of seven fishes' on Christmas Eve

I'll keep my thoughts on My Italian Christmas Memories to myself. The lack of authentic Italian actors, the woke pandering, the social pandering, the 'finding it at the 11th hour' contrivance, the 'purchasing ingredients on Christmas morning and starting complicated recipe that takes hours and still able to serve while still light out'. I just....can't.

Giants need to send a gift basket to their defense and penalty riddled Texans for this win

I guess it could be worse-she could be a Cowboys fan

I may have worded it wrong. James is a community counselor and activist. For him to go and vandalize someone front lawn because he didn’t like their narrow mindedness is spiteful and intolerant- behaviors some in his field would not advocate. It made me wonder that if the tables were turned and it was done to his house if he would say it was racist because he happens to be a poc. I hope that explains it better

I almost wanted to kick her in the face as much as I did Chen. I'm so sick and tired of her manipulative, entitled behavior when it comes to Tim. that she used his radio as a bargaining chip to get him to fess up what was bothering him was childish, unprofessional, annoying and WAY over the line. Just because they were partners doesn't mean it's mandatory that he shares all his personal life with you. Get over yourself, Chen, stop pushing, being needy, know when to back off and learn the meaning of the word 'boundaries' For that, his walking free would be well worth it If it was only just a prank for fun. Even though Tim was okay with it at the end, Chen was still over the line as to her reasons which was to extract information from Tim rather than just having fun. As I stated above, Chen used it as a bargaining chip to get Tim to confess to her what was going on with him. That's invading his personal space which is off limits. If he wants to talk, he'll talk. And good on Thorson for keeping his mouth shut and not telling her when she tried to shake him down too. The girl just doesn't know when to quit. Her need to validation and to be 'in the know' is getting tired. So.Much.This. And it's a foreshadowing of how you're probably going to have to determine all big decisions in your future. You want to name your kid John, but she wants to name him Horatio - okay, let's see who can do the most consecutive chin ups before collapsing, followed by who can make a delicious dessert with the least amount of ingredients, followed by who can solve the NYT crossword puzzle the fastest......UGH! And Nolan is much too mature to fall prey to these antics. That fact that he was engaged for a hot minute to someone from school and cheated on her because, deep down, he knew it wasn't meant to be should have no bearing on Angela. People have pasts. They date other people. They had sex with other people. If it happened 10 years before you met and married - so what? What's important is that you're in a committed, loving marriage with a child and are not doing that anymore Assuming James TP'd their neighbor's house, it was wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Yes, they're were ignorant, assuming and close minded, but those things didn't encroach upon N&J or their property. James went onto their property and vandalized it. So much for taking the high, tolerant road, James. If a non POC did this to the home of a POC there'd be hell to pay!

From 1984 - Why Me? with Glynnis O'Connor. Based on the true story of Leola Mae Harmon. it was both heartbreaking and heartwarming

She resembled a stretched out younger version of Mariah Carey

Instead of being dressed in flannel and jeans, they'll all be in berets or haute couture! Dear Lord, I never wanted to do anything more than kick that smug look off of Pamela's face as she exited the court room. Same with the ginger in charge of Outpost 22. I was literally yelling at the tv for him to be shot. I would say I loathe those types of individuals even worse than I did Negan. At least Negan made no bones about the monster he was and did the killing himself. These people don't want the power without getting their hands dirty in their nice, pristine offices Granted Eugene is quirky and annoying, but I'm surprised by all the hate for his character.

Okay.....here's mine. I’ve got a Hallmark movie pitch We already have so many…. There’s this woman…. Okay, you got my interest She’s ex-military who just lost her service dog and copes by giving shelter to strays in an abandoned house You had me at dogs City council is tired of the eyesore and wants it demolished NOOOOO! Where will the doggos go? Demolition company shows up and owner is 6’4 with dreamy brown eyes, perfectly ‘scaped beard and delicious dimples OMG! Turns out he just started company after doing a couple of tours and he really needs this job to stay afloat He’s ex-military too? Who saw that coming? Anyway, she clings to the front porch, refusing to let them raze the building. He needs to pull her off, but – because it’s such a hot day, he removes his work jacket to reveal jacked biceps because, you know….ex military God bless America! She won’t budge. He glimpses the sad eyes of all the dogs looking out the window from inside. He pauses and pulls out his wallet to show her photo of his own service dog who just crossed over the rainbow bridge too Again – didn’t see that coming They trade dog photos, sparks fly and…. Say it…. They fall in love YEAH, THEY DO! Come to find out a third cousin twice removed of demo guy is also on the city council who lets them in after hours to go through all the records neatly labeled and filed in brand spankin’ new filing cabinets because small town councils don’t need to digitize records. Pfft, technology! Anyway – they find a manila folder that was misfiled….. How convenient …..with a map of the house which shows the date it was built deems it to be a historic property Bingo! But….the dogs?? Third cousin twice removed seems to be owed a favor by council head and cashes it in by having the house not only saved from demolition, but……has the zoning changed to where it can be renovated into a puppy sanctuary Yessss! And this very special zoning also allows for residential occupancy on top two floors so couple who fell in love can get married and live upstairs with the pups downstairs Double yesssssss! Oh, and the house also comes with a large adjacent lot so demo guy can store his equipment and run his demo company out of there too because very special zoning also allows commercial business on site while she takes classes to train dogs for service and comfort. But not before adopting a few for themselves I knew it! It's called......'Reconstruct My Heart' ’